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Rhinoceros

Ionesco’s world of heady instability
fortyfivedownstairs
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ABR Arts 04 November 2024

Rhinoceros

Ionesco’s world of heady instability
fortyfivedownstairs
by
ABR Arts 04 November 2024
Cait Spiker as Berenger (photograph by Darren Gill)
Cait Spiker as Berenger (photograph by Darren Gill)

Zinnie Harris’s adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, in this Spinning Plates production at fortyfivedownstairs, opens on a sombre wasteland setting, bathed in eerie yellow light. In a sudden blaze of colour, a raucous rabble of ordinary characters, rendered extraordinary by Dann Barber’s bold and anarchic costumes, invades the stage. The energy is starkly at odds with Jacob Battista and Dann Barber’s superbly contained and claustrophobic staging. From this heightened theatrical world – part pantomime, part circus – we brace for a wild ride.

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